Kosovo gets international phone code +383

Kosovo said it had reached an agreement with Serbia that will allow it to have its own international telephone dialing code, eight years after declaring independence, in a move that will save millions of euros in payments to foreign countries.

The ITU (International Telecommunication Union) is expected to give Kosovo the country code +383 starting Dec. 15, the government said in a statement on Sunday. Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008, has been using the codes of Monaco, Serbia and Slovenia, and as we reported in the beginingÂ of this year, the +383 was expected to be completed in March 2016.

In return, Serbia will be able to register a mobile phone company that will operate temporarily within Serb-populated areas of Kosovo. Kosovo says it has paid about 200 million euros to use other country codes since its war with Serbia ended in 1999.

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